711

:''For the phone number, see 7-1-1. For the convenience store chain, see 7-Eleven. For the superhero, see 711 (Quality Comics)''
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Events

By Place

Europe

Byzantine Empire

Asia

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Europe

★ April 30 — Ummayad troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad land at Gibraltar and begin their invasion of the Iberian peninsula and conquest of the Visigoths (See Moors, Al-Andalus, and Umayyad conquest of Hispania)

★ July 19 — Ummayad Moors conquer the Iberian peninsula after the Battle of Guadalete

★ Childebert II succeeded by Dagobert III

Byzantine Empire

★ Philippicus incites a revolt against Justinian II, and upon the latter's death declares himself Byzantine emperor

Asia

★ Arabs led by Muhammad bin Qasim invade India, establishing a sultanate in Sind.

★ Reconstruction of Horyuji temple ends.

Births

Deaths

★ July — Roderick, king of the Visigoths

★ December — Justinian II, Byzantine emperor (assassinated) (b. 669)